الذوق الفني في مدونة النقد العربي القديم : أثره و منزلته و تحولاته

Abstract EN

The current research paper approaches the stature of taste in the Arabic criticism corpora as a criticism criterion and explores it in the old Arabic criticism from the perspective of the critic’s reliance on taste.

It highlights the emergence of taste as a determinant of creativity and decisive factor in selectivity on the level of individual’s taste, and by corollary the critics’ elaboration of taste on the social class level among both the public and the elite, in addition to the formation of the general and prevalent taste and its impact on the movement of creativity and criticism as well as the critics’ views on the transformations through which taste has undergone over successive periods and various environments.

The present paper devotes a special section to Ibn Rasheeq Al- Qairawani’s vision of artistic taste and the cultural shifts over several ages and the shapes taste has assumed by virtue of environments.

The paper endeavours to manifest the stature of taste and delineates the Arab critics’ awareness of the role taste has played in creativity together with the subsequent changes.